Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Origins of Green Architecture -- Introduction -- Early Green Design Strategies -- Modern Green Antecedents -- Contradictions with Modernism and Sustainability -- Greening Architecture -- Greening Urbanism -- Temporal Landscape for Sustainability -- Endnotes -- 2 1960s: An Environmental Awakening -- The American Dream -- Early Warnings -- Social Sustainability -- Planning and Design Responses -- Visionary Beginnings -- Radical Architecture -- Mainstreaming Modernism -- Endnotes -- 3 1970s: Solar Architecture -- Impact of the 1973 Oil Embargo -- Active Solar Technologies -- Passive Solar Systems -- Architectural Integration -- Off-Grid And Unplugged -- Solar Communities -- Weaving Modernism -- Endnotes -- 4 1980s: Postmodern Green -- Postmodernism -- Conservation, Preservation and Historicism -- Contemporary Vernacular -- Postmodern Urbanism -- Critical Regionalism -- Postmodern Green Architecture -- Endnotes -- 5 1990s: Eco-Technology -- High-Tech Architecture -- Virtual Architecture -- Eco-Technology -- Low-Tech Hybrids -- Literal Greening Of Architecture -- Health Concerns -- Green Certification Programs -- Endnotes -- 6 2000s: Sustainable Pluralism -- Poly-Scaler Sustainability -- Biometrics -- Infrastructure Architecture -- Sustainable Urbanism -- Agricultural Urbanism -- Ecological Footprint -- Next Generation Green -- Endnotes -- 7 The Global Landscape of Green Architecture -- Urban-Rural -- High-Tech-Low-Tech -- New-Existing -- Extreme-Mainstream -- X-Large-X-Small -- Proliferating Green Architecture -- Endnotes -- 8 Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Index.